One Hundred and Two H-Bombs
(1966)And Other Science Fiction Stories
A collection of stories by Thomas M Disch
"Everyone--even the generals--hated the non-war. It cost a great deal, and there was no profit in it: it was insane. Yet allmost all of the adults were too deeply tangled in the system that produced the non-war to see their way out. That was almost the definition of being an adult: That you couldn't see the way out... But the children were tied by no such fetters of attitude and preconception. And one hundred and two strangely gifted orphans saw a way out very clearly..."
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